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Topic: New XZ550 Page on FaceBook (Read 2334 times)

I've joined an XZ550 group in FB and I posted a note about ROV and a couple of people said they had tried to join the forum but were not successful. Is there an email address someone can write to if they have problems navigating through the sign up procedure?

I personally don't like the Facebook format. I'm not on Facebook, but my wife is. I don't know the in's and out's of it, but it seems to be the thing now. I much prefer what we have here, except for the echos.

Yes I far prefer here over FB for many reasons. Notably the great searchable history, massive experience and great people. Half the comments on FB are by people who have never straddled an XZ let alone swung a wrench on one. and posts vanish after a short while. Even Ron Ghetti posts on FB and doesn't post here so perhaps it's a loosing battle.

POD is right of course. More posting with good and interesting information is welcome. In that regard, I intend to eventually write up my trip through the carburetor transplant process I'm currently going through. Maybe also the fork transplant with making the triple clamps as Ron McCoy did. Hopefully someone else will beat me to it and show THEIR way that they got it done.

As noted by others above, this site is a wealth of searchable repair data. I wonder how many of the FB users use this site to search for answers without "checking in" but use the FB page for socializing.

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My old college car club has gone (and is going) through the same issues as here with the forum vs Facebook. Over a decade ago we all documented all our car builds with tons of photos, write ups, etc. But now with Facebook is seems anything older than a few days gets lost. Our forum has maybe 10 active guys on it who just refuse to let it die.

I'm still waiting to finish my long-running project of EFI converting, front end swap, and a ton of other mods for my Vision. All of the parts are still in storage bins, but with the past 2 moves I'm still without a garage. The house I just moved into a few weeks ago has an unfinished basement that I'm tempted to use to start rebuilding the bike this fall... But we'll see how that goes. It's really frustrating to go from a fully stocked garage to no garage and have all your projects put on hold. Thanks But at least my commute went from 1.5 hours each way to 10 minutes... So I guess it's not too bad. I remember joining this forum in 1999 when I was 15 and just got my first vision that I still have! This has been an incredibly knowledgeable and helpful place. We definitely shouldn't let it be forgotten by a fad of Facebook.

« Last Edit: June 07, 2018, 10:54:50 PM by Blake »

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FB should be just to whet new Vision owner's appetite so they'll go to ROV to get some real advice; not some idle remarks from someone who's never seen a Vision. I have the same thing with my club in Mexico, Motoclasico de San Miguel de Allende. I have a FB page as a free advertisement but anyone that wants to join has to request a membership through yahoo groups. It seems yahoo is trying to phase out groups now so I'll have to devise a new strategy.